Filibuster

Pompey’s veterans. He filled the entire forum where the vote was to take place with this council. When Bibulus arrived, the veterans dumped feces on top of his head forcing him to leave and go home. On top of this, when Cato was on stage attempting to filibuster, the veterans grabbed him off of the stage and carried him out of the forum. Using violence and unjust tactics, Caesar was able to stop Cato and Bibulus and won the vote. Not only did Caesar use violent tactics, he was also a master of…

The Congress, all these years, was in the 10-20% range approval by the American public, the President sunk lower than 40% too, just to be back up now when he is a lame duck. Democrats in the Senate used the nuclear option and removed the filibuster over some of the Obama appointees only to get the same treatment from the Republicans when it came to confirming Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court to replace late Justice Antonin Scalia. The gridlock in Washington was the norm for the last eight…

In the book, Winner-Take-All Politics, the authors Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson take a look at how over the last half a century the economy of the United States has become skewed to benefit the richest of the rich in the country. They treat the problem as if they were solving a crime, referring to the information and data they collect as DNA evidence or clues, and run through a list of prime suspects (13). They describe how others have interpreted the facts, and come up with different…

One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation was wrote, African Americans were still battling for equal rights in their everyday life. The first real victory of this movement did not happen until the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 which was shadowed by many boycotts and protests. The biggest of these protests, the March on Washington, happened on August 28, 1963 “for jobs and freedom”. A vast amount of groundwork went into the event to accommodate the hundreds of…

override a presidential veto, a super majority required for an override. Of the 1,484 regular presidential veto’s, 106 were actually over ridden. The government can also suspend the rules in the House and Senate with a 2/3 super majority vote. A filibuster is a prolonged speech that is meant to obstruct the progress of legislation. This can also be interrupted by a super majority vote of 3/5. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires a 2/3 majority of the…

Provisions The PPACA aims to make coverage more accessible and in order to do this it does the following: Creates an Individual Mandate. Enforces an individual mandate requiring most U.S. citizens and legal residents to have health insurance coverage or pay a penalty. Establishes American Health Benefit Exchanges. In order to make coverage more available and affordable, PPACA creates new objects called American Health Benefit Exchanges through which individuals who normally do not have access to…

Joseph Lieberman introduced Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal legislation titled the Military Readiness Enhancement Act and tried to add it as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act but was unsuccessful in passing the amendment due to a filibuster led by Senator John McCain. In December the stand-alone bill Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010 was passed and signed into law. (Washington Post). This ended the policy after a sixty-day waiting period but did not prohibit…

Like Clinton and Eisenhower, Obama has shown throughout his presidency to be chiefly a preemptive president, given his location in political time. However, Obama is unique in that during his first term, Obama declared himself to be a reconstructive president. Years leading up to his campaign, and throughout the course of his campaign, his motto has been centered on change, often times even repudiating the Bush administration. His rhetoric is oriented around unity and change especially in 2008,…

This paper argues the existence of the separation of powers within the United States’ government today. Accordingly, it reviews published primary sources including documents and journals. This paper looks at the works of many prominent publishers such as Frank E. Gannet, Leslie and Wynell Burroughs, National Constitution Center, the Constitution of the United States, National Conference of State Legislatures, Parlament and National Archives. While this paper shows that the separation of powers…

The Korean War was the first military clash of the Cold War, a war between the principles of democracy and the principles of communism. The two titans after World War II, the United Stated and the Soviet Union wanted to ideological shape the world in their images. President Truman, a common man in extraordinary situations, used the Cold War strategy of ‘containment’, which was not allow the spread of communism past the nations that already were communist. One of the battle lines that Truman’s…